By Nadeem Muaddi There are better ways to have fun in a car than jumping curbs or racing your buddies from stop light to stop light. Try, for instance, cruising across Norway's Atlantic Road during a hurricane or crossing Bolivia's "Road of Death" unscathed. For those in search of tamer excitement, roadways like Tennessee's "Tail of the Dragon" provide breathtaking views -- especially now that autumn has arrived. Never mind cliché travel destinations ...
Leave it to us Asians to figure out a way to take a mundane device like an mp3 player with no screen and repackage it into something cute and interesting. Samsung will be releasing their TicToc, a device set to compete with iPod shuffle type of products. Apart from the TicToc looking like a sale shaker, it also changes songs with the a shake of the player, quite innovative, but maybe not the best thing to have if you listening to this and running around the place.
The Apple iPad was announced today. In a nutshell, it’s a bigger iPhone that runs all the same apps on a 9.7 inch touch screen and has a 10 hour battery life and 30 day stand-by. It’s half an inch thick, weighs 1.5 pounds, and is powered by Apple’s own custom 1GHz ARM A4chip and can run up to 64 GB of storage. It has all the wireless connectivity of the iphone (802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1), a built-in speaker and microphone, accelerometer and uses the same 30-pin Dock connector as the iPod and iPhone. ...
by Mike Canter Other than installing thermo-coupler sensors in the combustion chambers the only real way that you know what is happening inside your engine is to read the spark plugs. Both the fuel mixture and the ignition timing result in coloring of the spark plug’s porcelain and ground strap. The trick is to how to get the correct coloring without going into detonation and destroying the engine or by going too rich and raising the ring lands. Spark plugs ...
NEW NEW Under, German company Asphaltfighters' latest creation has the most outrageous set of raw numbers we’ve seen for a production motorcycle. The 999cc Stormbringer has 220hp and an extra 60 ponies kick in over 180kmh for a 280bhp total. It’ll run "more than 198mph", hits 62mph in 2.9 seconds, ...
